Lakers first-round decide Dalton Knecht is among the largest steals of the season and he has spoken truthfully about slipping down the ranks, after being anticipated to go high ten.
Shockingly, when draft day arrived, he was chosen by the Lakers because the seventeenth total decide and he’s utilizing it as gas.
“There’s simply extra motivation that these groups slipped and the Lakers had full perception in me. It doesn’t matter what, I’m going to place within the work. However it’s further motivation for me to even preserve placing in additional work. Identical to after I was a child in Southern Colorado making an attempt to make a D-1 workforce with all my guys on the market [at Prairie View High School]. Nothing actually adjustments. I’m staying who I’m. I’m getting photographs up within the gymnasium. I attempt to care for my physique. I attempt to be the most effective total workforce participant that I may be,” Knecht instructed Sportskeeda’s Mike Media.
After one of many Lakers first video games, Charles Barkley ripped the league’s common managers for letting him slip so low.
“Initially, these NBA Basic Managers don’t have any concept what they’re doing,” Barkley stated on TNT’s Contained in the NBA. “Letting the Lakers get Dalton Knecht was one of many stupidest issues I’ve ever seen. That’s a nasty boy proper there. Dalton Knecht, do not forget that identify y’all.”
The rookie has been spectacular to start out the season, averaging 7.7 factors, 0.7 rebounds and 1.7 assists on 50 p.c capturing from the sphere and 41.7 p.c capturing from three in simply 16.3 minutes.
“I’m simply going to exit and hoop,” Knecht stated. “I’ll be who I’m and do regardless of the workforce wants me to do. I’ll exit and compete. I’ll all the time have a chip on my shoulder, whether or not they drafted me or not. If I’m not their workforce, I’ll have a chip it doesn’t matter what. If I’m enjoying any workforce, I’m going to have a chip on my shoulder as a result of that’s who I’m.”
READ MORE: Warriors Present Replace on Steph Curry’s Ankle Damage
